Düsseldorf, Germany: self-published, 1969. 29,7x21,1 cm. Hectograph.

Single sheet printed only recto, published in conjunction with the exhibition Prospect 69. Watermarked paper “firn”. An original text piece by Lamelas. Extremely scarce. 

**picture from previous copy - this one not folded**. VG+ / Near Fine.

In those days you usually went to a museum auditorium to see a film. My idea was to show both the film and projector. It worked like a time projector, projecting another time than the real time. The projector becomes the object which projects the image, the distance between the projector and the surface and the light between both. So it was not just a film, it was a whole environment.'

In Time as Activity, David Lamelas pursues his combined investigation of the exhibition venue and its urban environs. For the Prospect 69 exhibition at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, he produced the film Time as Activity, shown alone in a large room. Real time and film time coincide in three takes of four minutes each, in which the stationary camera focuses on three central locations in Dus seldorf, each characterized by different states of stasis and movement: a late morning view of the Kunsthalle with cars that have come to a halt in a parking lot, an early afternoon view of a fountain with its waters in constant motion and an early evening view of rush-hour traffic at a downtown intersection. Each take is preceded by announcements of the location and the length of the take. Lamelas thus relates time, as the vehicle of the action, to architecture and urban structures. [David Lamelas: A New Refutation of Time, 1997, p. 60-61 (illustrated full page)] [Extra Ref: MACBA, Material A06370 / Gràfic_P_M_0220_c1].